Adjustable form for garments



1101101191.) Y H. G. UPPORD.

Adjustable Form for Garments.

No. 233,173. Patented Oct. 12,1880.

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`UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

HEZEKAH G. UFFORD, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

ADJUSTABLE FORM FOR GARMENTS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 233,173, dated October12, 1880.

Application filed June 19, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom @t may concern:

Be it known that I, HEZEKIAH G. UEEoED, of Boston, in the county ofSuffolk and State oi' Massachusetts, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Adjustable Forms for Ladies7 Garments, of whichthe following is a specification.

The object ot' my invention is to provide a cheap, simple, andconvenient adj nstable form for exhibiting ladies7 dresses and othergarments in such a manner that a single form may be so adjusted,expanded, or contracted throughout its entire length from top to bottomas to fit within any desired size of aladys dress, so as to show thestyle of drapery, the liow ofthe skirts, and the size, style, cut, andmake of the waist of the same as readily as if it were placed upon a.human being; and it consists in the construction, combination, andarrangement of the parts forming the wire skeleton-i'raine, ashereinafter more fully described and set forth.

Figure 1 is a perspective view ot' a frame constructed according to myinvention. Fig. 21s a similarview ofthe interior standard and adjustingparts removed.

A represents the base ot' the frame, into which 1s secured the verticaltube B, having a set-screw, C, near its upper end, so as to retain theadjustable vertical rod or upright support D in an elevated position, asmay be desired. Fitted upon this support D is a short vertical tube, E,having right-angled or horizontal tubes F F', provided with set-screws GG', so as to retain the side support-rods, H H', the lower ends of whichare bent at right angles so as to fit Within the outer ends of thehorizontal tubes F, so as to allow of horizontal adjustment of the wireskeleton-forms L L', to which the upper ends ot the support-rods H H aresecured, as shown.

It will be seen that these wire skeleton-forms L L' are completelyseparated from top to bottom, or vertically, forming right and lefthalves, L L', and are provided at their top or neck portions, I1', withhorizontal adjusting loops or slots J J', and are held in the desiredposition horizontally by means of the thumb-nut or screw-knob K, whichtits a screw-thread upon the upper end of the vertical support-rod D,over which the loops or slots J ofthe skeletonframe L L are passed, thebottom or lower portion ot said wire skeleton-form frames being providedwith similar adjusting loops or slots P P', and aser-screw, T. andslides 1t R. These bottom loops or slots,P P', pass or slidehorizontally upon the vertical tube B, as shown.

Thus it will be seen that the skeleton-form composed of the two wireframes L L' is adjustable horizontally, so as to permit the diameter otthe form to be enlarged or reduced at pleasure, and secured at such sizeagainst movement temporarily at either the neck or bust, waist, orbottoni skirt portion, and that the whole may be lowered or raised asoccasion may require, or revolved about the central support or standard,which diametrical adjustment is a distinguishing and essential featureot' my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is- In combination withthe adjustable standard B D, the adjustable skeleton-frames L L' dividedlongitudinallyfrom top to bottom. and provided with the adjusting-loopsJ J P P', the screw-knob K, and having the tubes E F F', support-rods HH', set-screws G G', and slides lt It, provided with the set-screw T,all being constructed substantially as shown and described, as and forthe purposes set forth.

HEZEKIAH G. UFFORD.

Witnesses:

SYLvANUs WALKER, D. W. SMITH.

